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After Heresy: Colonial Practices And Postcolonial Theologies,Used
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In this important contribution to postcolonial theological studies, the argument is made that religious practices and teachings imposed on colonized peoples are transmuted in the process of colonization. The very theological discourse that is foisted on the colonized people becomes for them, a liberating possibility through a process of theological transformation from within. This is offered as an explanation of the mechanisms which have brought about the emergence of the current postcolonial consciousness. However, what is distinctive and unique about this treatment is that it pursues these questions with two basic assumptions. The first is that the religious expressions of colonized people bear the outward marks of the hegemonic theological discourse imposed on them, but change its content through a process called 'transfiguration' The second is that the crises of Western Christianity since the Reformation and the Conquest of the Americas enunciates the very process through which postcolonial religious hybridity is made possible. This book unfolds in three parts. The first (the 'pretext') deals with the colonial practice of the missionary enterprise using Latin America as a case study. The second (the 'text') presents the crisis of Western modernity as interpreted by insiders and outsiders of the modern project. The third (the 'context') analyses some discursive postcolonial practices that are theologically grounded even when used in discourses that are not religious. Some of the questions that this project engages are: Is there a postcolonial understanding of sin and evil? How can we understand eschatology in postcolonial terms? What does it mean to be the church in a postcolonial framework? For those interested in the intersection of theology and postcolonial studies, this book will be important reading.
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